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dialogue, bringing what they learn home to apply it on campus and beyond. Read More Våre Røtter: Our Roots More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs. A ResoLute writer and photographer traveled to Norway in the fall to get a glimpse of our roots — våre røtter — through the eyes of students. Read More The Mooring Mast to The Evening Post When Hilde Bjørhovde ’80 returned to Norway

Association conference in Yakima and at the National Flute Association Convention. The flute choir performs using Burkart and Philip Hammig piccolos, Trevor James alto flutes, and a Kingma bass flute. The Norwegian term Sølvvinden can be translated as The Silver Wind. PLU Flutists performing in the State Capitol Building Flute Ensemble Recordings Renaissance for a New Millennium ( )Ricky Lombardo   Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update

Symposium, “Food and the Environment.” This symposium began with a keynote lecture, co-sponsored with the Wang Symposium, by Dr. Vandana Shiva, and ended with keynote by Valerie Segrest, Community Nutritionist and Project Coordinator for the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project. The symposium also featured a series of panel discussions and a PLU Center for Engagement and Service sponsored food tour of Tacoma. In March, Dr. Hege Finholt, a Norwegian political philosopher from the University of Olso, gave

Appreciations: In Recognition of Mark JensenMark Jensen began his career in the French Program at PLU in 1989, fresh from Berkeley. A specialist of nineteenth-century French literature but polymath at heart, Mark wrote his dissertation on Alfred de Vigny’s historical fiction and is a leading scholar of Paul Bénichou, a preeminent critic of French Romanticism. Mark translated, with characteristic precision and elegance, several of Bénichou’s works from French into English–notably The

something) into a troll,” “enchant,” and “entroll.” Trolls appear first in Snorri’s Edda. Today, some people still see or hear from trolls: Lindow begins his book Trolls: An Unnatural History (2014) with the story of a young exchange student in Oslo seeing a troll on a dark, rainy night in the 1970s. Lindow writes: “Trolls have been around for 1,000 years, and they are not going away.” The Norwegian Landscape is alive with Trolls. Not only are trolls from the landscape, they return to and shape the

Course Title RELI 131 The Religions of South Asia - RL, VW, GE RELI 211 Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible - RL, IT RELI 212 Religion and Literature of the New Testament - RL, IT RELI 215 Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean - RL, VW, GE RELI 220 Early Christian History - RL, IT RELI 221 Medieval Christian History - RL, IT RELI 224 Always Reforming: The Lutheran Heritage - RL, VW RELI 226 Christian Ethics - RL, VW RELI 227 Introduction to Christian Theologies - RL, VW RELI 229 Health

Publishing RACHEL DIEBEL (2016) Editor, Feiwel & Friends / Square Fish Books (Macmillan Publishers) Major: English, Literature Concentration Minors: Publishing and Printing Arts; Communications; and Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Degree: Masters of Science in Publishing, Pace University (2018) How did your English major establish a foundation for your career path? My English major laid the groundwork for how I think about and talk about stories, which is an integral part of my job. Loving

course. The first was to introduce or deepen students’ knowledge of the creation stories of the Americas, and to allow them to grasp the connections between these myths and contemporary literature produced in Mexico and in Latin America. At a deeper level, I also hoped to show the students how they might utilize literature in order to reflect upon their own experiences in Oaxaca. While the first part of the course centered on ancient Mesoamerican texts, and the cultural traditions they communicated

: Mayer Summer Research Fellow Presentation Who: Lottie Duran ’19 Majors: Politics & Government, Women’s & Gender Studies Minor: Holocaust & Genocide Studies Conference ScheduleCourtney OlsenPresentation Title: Mayer Summer Research Fellow Presentation Who: Courtney Olsen ’18 Majors: History and Economics Minors: Norwegian and Religion Conference ScheduleSadie PowellPresentation Title: Mayer Summer Research Fellow Presentation Who: Sadie Powell ’17 Major: History Minor: Norwegian Conference

as director of the Rainier Writing Workshop—and as the new Poetry Editor of the prestigious New England Review. Read More Art of Diplomacy An exhibition celebrating Norway’s constitution, 1814-2014: Red White and Blue–Norwegian Constitution, American Inspiration, held its exclusive U.S. premiere at PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center and remains on display through Sept. 28. Read More SIGNS, SIGNS, EVERYWHERE A (PLU) SIGN In today’s crazily competitive college market, you either go big or go home